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		<title>Monday Morning Musings #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to week 3 of my asinine questions. I brought the following question up during a Wednesday night men&#8217;s bible study that I have belonged to for about 3 years now.  The question: When we reach heaven, will we still have freewill to choose? That question needs a little fleshing out to make more sense, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=877&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does Compassion look like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[com·pas·sion (k m-p sh n). n. Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. The story behind the photo: As described in Time magazine, the scene Carter captured in his now-famous photograph was one he stumbled across during a trip he made on his own in order to cover [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=871&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am 40 years old.  And I am a biscuit shy of 300 pounds. So what has possessed me to to start running?  I can tell you it is not a sudden urge to join a marathon or find my twenties.  I am not having a mid-life crisis and there is no new love to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=868&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Morning Musings #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright.  I have been mulling something over for awhile now and thought I would ask you, dear reader, to elucidate. Here is today&#8217;s question: Is one&#8217;s relationship with the Father based purely on Love, Performance, or both? This question was prompted after a sermon that my pastor gave on this topic.  My comments here are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=865&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More, again, please!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[recollection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I found myself recalling a time when my eldest daughter was just about a year old and my wife was feeding her cantaloupe.  My daughter was enjoying the fruit so much that she became upset when a piece fell from the fork and landed on the floor instead of making it into her mouth. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=861&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Morning Musings #1</title>
		<link>http://30secondrule.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/monday-morning-musings-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to force myself into some form of consistency with my blogging, I am going to introduce a theme for Mondays centered on the ridiculous questions that entertain my mind from time-to-time. Today&#8217;s question is this: What do you think goes through God&#8217;s mind as He looks down on a singular man or woman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=853&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Non-manipulative Intentionality</title>
		<link>http://30secondrule.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/non-manipulative-intentionality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the following as a response in a discussion that was held on this blog back in 2009 (where has the time gone?) What if instead of worrying about creating culture, the church focused on actions that reflect God’s holiness? Couldn’t culture then be a by-product of that reflection? There is a phrase that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=850&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mumford and Sons</title>
		<link>http://30secondrule.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/mumford-and-sons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending some time listening to this group on YouTube, I decided to buy their album from iTunes. I can say categorically that I like every song on the cd.  There is something about the bluegrass sound and the lead singer&#8217;s voice that connects with me.  Now for those of you who got scared away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=845&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inventing God</title>
		<link>http://30secondrule.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/inventing-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[exist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I posted the following to Twitter: Is the tension in earning salvation vs receiving it bourne from desire 2 invent a god based on how we feel? Is God a manifestation of piety? I didn&#8217;t receive any feedback on that question&#8230; probably because I forgot to mention what I was eating or some menial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=842&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alive</title>
		<link>http://30secondrule.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony York</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So.. Back in January I went through a period of dealing with kidney stones.  Docs had me try to pass it naturally the first couple of weeks and eventually went after it via surgery and couldn&#8217;t see it.  I spent 5 days on the mend only to find out that it went back to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=30secondrule.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6452282&amp;post=840&amp;subd=30secondrule&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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